Sentence examples for announced instead from inspiring English sources

Those same city officials were dumbfounded in early October when Lehman suddenly announced instead that it was buying a skyscraper at 745 Seventh Avenue in Midtown.

Ford announced instead a series of less glamorous improvements in fuel-injection technology and transmission design that are intended to improve the gas mileage of many existing models.

But for all the skill of the narrative, the conclusion is announced instead of experienced, and you feel the author's elbow in your ribs.

The euro surged in value today after the move was announced, instead of falling, as currency traders turned their attention to the United States, where the Federal Reserve is expected to reduce rates later this month.

In July of 1987, during a press conference at which Bill Clinton was to announce his candidacy for the Presidency, he announced instead that he had decided not to run, mentioning his commitment to his family, and the fact that Chelsea was only seven — and, standing beside him, the famously composed Hillary Clinton wept.

At a news conference in Gaza on Saturday, Said Siam, a senior Hamas official who oversees security forces in Gaza, did not address the hostilities with Israel, but announced instead that a young man from Fatah, the main rival of Hamas, had been arrested for plotting to assassinate Ismail Haniya, the Hamas leader in Gaza.

Announcing instead that someone was "taking a piss" got big laughs.

The narrator said nothing about risks, announcing instead: "The sea is crucial to the development of China and its future as a maritime state".

If the Republican Party had a brain it would give up on its debt-ceiling gambit and announce instead that it wants to open negotiations immediately with President Obama on the basis of his own deficit commission, the Simpson-Bowles plan.

The breathtaking "idiocy", as one senior woman put it, of the recent decision by the Women Bishops Revision Committee wilfully to ignore the request by General Synod for straightforward and sensible legislation and announce instead its decision to proceed with convoluted discriminatory plans, has angered not just the ordained women, but many bishops, male clergy and laity as well.

This year, the Architectural Review declared that both architects' recent projects "arrogantly flaunt their refusal to defer to local context... announcing instead that the supposed right to ego-expression of a starchitect trounces all such decencies".